August 24, 2018

There is a HUGE threat to pretty much all the retail sector, major parts of the health sector, and slices of a few others, such as banking and insurance. That threat is liability for data-breaches. The Street is one liberal judge away from a BAD crash, which WILL happen when one of the 77% of the Federal Courts' liberal judges decides to rule that all the phony, unconstitutional protections that companies have bribed into effect against liability for data breaches, ARE actually unconstitutional. Imagine YOU lost your identity to the hackers of Kohl's, Target or ANY company which, mostly for greed reasons, refused to use the best practices of information security. You have suffered a big loss, and if ALL your loss would be ruled compensible, you would receive somewhere in the five-figures area of compensation. Now multiply that figure by hundreds of millions, the TOTAL number of data breach victims. That adds up to doom for the entire retail sector, the health-care sector & probably the banking sector. The economy fails at that point. No one will invest in any company having had anything to do with digital records-keeping, which is pretty much everyone, isn't it?

Bottom line? The entire Bull Market Bottom Line can be removed by ONE Judge writing ONE opinion which survives thru the SCOTUS. No, I'm not going to tell you what to do if you can't invest. No, strike that, I WILL tell you, bercause that's why I blog! Buy land you can farm on. Buy guns to defend it with and buy plenty of beans and bullets for the Militia you will raise for that defense. NOW, I'm done warning you!

February 15, 2018

Time to reiterate the idea that WE the People have the ABSOLUTE AND NATURAL RIGHT to Keep and Bear Arms via our Second Amendment to our Constitution, and that 2A ends in the words, "shall not be infringed".

Infringements Equal Tyranny, and Tyranny is why we have the Second amendment in the first place, so it's ALMOST time to use it and ORDER the Infringers to desist upon pain of being REMOVED, by use of the 2A and Militia.

That said, there are some preps we have to make first:

Practice, practice, practice. You need to be able to HIT what you aim at, and if you can't guarantee that, Practice until you CAN!

Get in shape. Militia duty will be mostly out-of-doors, in whatever weather presents itself. You will have to be able to move around and still fight.

Prepare your gear. When you report for your Militia Muster, you should be prepared to fight and live on the move, in the outdoors. Get that Gear if you don't have it now.

THINK about Militia. If you are ex-military, it's structure will be familiar, if not, talk to a veteran, preferably Army or Marine, about Small Unit warfare.

Maintain your awareness level of events. In my case, gun-grabbing laws are in the Legislature's hopper, so I am preparing to DISPERSE my weapons and ammo.

Political discussion is NOT your friend. It takes too much time and distracts you from gathering militarily-useful information which your Militia unit will need.

Start to consider that any and ALL State and Local armed forces will be your ENEMIES, not your friends when your Militia Unit musters. Eventually some policing agencies might tolerate Militia as allies, but from the get-go, they will NOT.

Militia Service might last for a few hours, or it could go on for years. changing the direction of tyrannical Government might happen overnight, or it might devolve into bloody Civil War, we won't know until those tyrants have to face the fact that they have ARMED opposition.

Get Ready, we are almost at the Point of No Return, the point beyond which we may NOT tolerate any further Tyranny.

September 29, 2017

If you've followed this blog for any length of time, you will know that I was never a fan of the AR-15 carbine (I still don't call it a RIFLE). Not that I haven't had the chance, I was issued one for a while in the Deputy Dawg Days. It was a junker narco-seizure, but I worked it up and it made a fine Patrol Rifle. I carried it on my boat in the Sheriff's River Patrol, to which I was assigned then. It replaced my personal Ithaca M37 Deerstalker, a 12-ga with rifle sights. I was ok to 75 yards with that S/G, grouped under a foot, but stretching the range to 100 and more gave me higher probabilities of a miss, so when the chance came for the AR, I took it. It had no optics, and I usually grouped 5-7" with it at 100 yards, the range we qualified Patrol Rifle sturmtruppen at then. Don't even remember what brand it was.

I have a fine selection of older battle rifles and carbines. My go-to SHTF rifle is a nice CETME Modelo-B (s/a H&K 91) with original German military Zeiss glass. I also have SKS carbines & Brit 303, Brit 7.62 NATO Enfield/Ishapore bolties. Presently, I have nada shooting the "PoodleShooter" round (5.56x45 NATO).

Today, two things happened. I was researching for a blog article about a Ukrainian outfit, Stilletto Systems, which is making a new sniper rifle (out of old Mosin-Nagant actions - there are millions of Mosin rifles in armories in that war zone). The more important news is that they also took a fairly standard US hunting cartridge, the 300 Winchester Short Magnum, and made an OUTSTANDING battle-rifle cartridge out of it. RTWT on that PDF. Now, I might not want another old Mosin, no matter how fancy a "sniper-stock" is on it, but then it occurred to me that maybe, just maybe, someone had made an AR-10 (AR-15 with a real battle cartridge) that would shoot this new battle ammo.

BINGO! There ARE AR-10s in 300WSM! Olympic Arms makes them, but puts an under-performing 20" barrel on them. To get the most from this hot anti-armor (penetrates 1/2" armor plate of 500 Brinell at 750 meters) cartridge, you need a barrel of at least 26". That article didn't deal with the loss of cartridge pressure you get with a semi-auto over a boltie, so those calculations might have to be done again or fudged for that slight loss of pressure.

The US military deals with the need for semi-auto, anti-armor fires by using the Barrett M82A1 in 50BMG, or by using a Ma Deuce in the same caliber. This AR-10 would be half the weight, and Soldier Systems in Fort Devens, Natick MA, is ALL about weight for the soldier these days. They are on paper as having a firm goal of getting the entire soldier's battle-ensemble INCLUDING weapon down to 45# (22KG). Now the AR-10 is going to out-weigh the M4 by at least 4# when SSCC is looking at ounces to reduce, so maybe that 22KG goal would have to be adjusted for this battle rifle.

The second reason I now am interested in an AR is price-point. ALL the gun manufacturers bet heavily on a Hillary-as-POTUS scenario and seriously overbuilt inventory, expecting a massive gun-rush after the election last year. We got Trump, and a nominally-GOP Congress, so no Gun Control at the federal level for a while. The bottom has dropped out of the AR market. The S&W MP-15 used to sell at list for around $800-$1,000, and here's one for $489! Ammo is cheaper, too. 5.56 used to sell at about 50 cents a round for the better stuff, sometimes more. You can get cheapo 5.56 for half of that now, and I have reloaded it for pals for 14 cents in their hulls. This S&W pricing means I can put together an AR with reflex sight for around One Large.

Now I need to do a side-by-side field and range comparison between the AR and my CETME. The AR-10 battle rifle is a nice pipe dream at this point, but at least it's out there.

May 24, 2017

(Large amount of destroyed panels removed before the picture was taken)

I have heard that ROM in these printers stores EVERY document ever printed, scanned or faxxed. So, you can't just junk the thing when it fails, you have to DESTROY it, in detail. The "re-cycle centers" are NOT going to do that, and paying minimum wage to their peeps, those slaves might be incentivized to remove your docs and sell them to an evil person.

I suppose I could build a fire and torch the thing, but I am a CONSERVATIONIST, and I don't want to foul the air without cause to do so. One never knows what poly-ethyl-badshit plastic they build these things out of, so, no torch. Take it to the gun range and give it an AR Funeral? My range frowns on that.

So, I removed each screw I could get at and used a heavy crowbar on the rest to get it down to chunks and get the digital boards out of it. BTW, I DID spend some time online trying to find a diagram which would tell me just where the data cache was on one of those boards, but never found that. I had planned to chuck a big wall-drill in a drill-motor and hole out the offending part, but without a diagram of where that offending part was, couldn't do that.

Eye-protection, gloves and crowbar did the work in about 15 minutes.

When I think of the sensitive crap I copied and scanned on that machine, it gives me the willies thinking that someone else might get it...

December 03, 2015

The events unfolding in San Bernardino show us a different threat. Not an unknown threat, just a different one.

We have been used to seeing various formats of homicidal/suicidal Jihad here: 9-11, the various Jihadi gun attacks since then, etc. All these attacks had one common characteristic: the Muslims involved were all determined to kill members of the Western Civilization, but pretty much stuck to methods which left their shock troops dead with the event. One-way attacks. Don't "pass go", Get your 72 raisins immediately.

With San Berdoo, we have just seen an attack in which the Jihadis had trained and prepared to strike with force and effect, but moved on quickly to, presumably, strike again later. Far from the normal homicide/suicide attack, this is more like revolutionary attack. This resembles what we used to refer to as a "partisan" attack. Similar to the tactics of the French or Yugoslavian partisans who attacked the Nazis during WW2. What we just saw could have been very successful for the Jihadis, and the only reason it wasn't, was better training and discipline/communication on the part of the police authorities.

My purpose here is not to figure out how to defeat this different flavor of Jihad, but to prepare the average citizen to survive it. Methods of defeat for the Muslim Jihad will have to wait for a National Command Authority determined to defeat Islamic Jihad itself, and we don't have such leadership now, we have the opposite. We have political and command leadership determined to NOT face down islamic Jihad instead of the other way around. The effect for John Q. Citizen is that he will probably have to face the shock troops of Jihad alone, possibly with the help of local police.

A personal note: I am trained in various aspects of public safety, and as events unfolded and were reported yesterday in San Berdnardino, I evaluated the events as if they were the result of criminal gang activity, since, to me, the events more resembled the activity of, say, Mexican drug cartels or the criminal gang MS-13 (both very active in San Bernardino), and both are orgs not unwilling to create mass murder to get their point across. I was wrong in that analysis, mostly because I applied the usual standard of homicide/suicide Jihad, then rejected it, and this event did not fit that model.

So, how to prepare?

Arm up. The protected citizen will be armed at all times, with handgun(s) within hands' reach at home and away, and a long gun close by as well. You will have to figure out how to conform to "safe storage" laws to accomplish this in your home and in your car (presumably, your "away" long gun stays in the car). At home, I have quick-reaction pistol safes (plural), and the long gun goes back in the big safe when kids are present, so I comply. In the car, I carry on my person as I am permitted to do, and my long gun is a Kel-tec folding rifle with internal lock, carried in a locking gun case, kept in the locked trunk of the vehicle.That complies with local law as well (it would NOT comply in CA or several Eastern states though).

Train up. At this point, if you have not already done so, join a local gun club or commercial firearms practice facility. Your preference should be one which has practice facilities for handgun (any caliber), rifle (any caliber) and shotgun. With the exceptions of no 50BMG and no full-auto, my club fits these requirements. You will need to allot sufficient funds for ammo, and/or begin to reload your chosen calibers. You will need to allot sufficient time to practice, probably a minimum of once per month in the training phase, and four times per year with all defense firearms as a maintenance-of-training effort.

Smarten up. Apply some common sense as to your selection of events to attend, particularly if you will be responsible for others' safety. Large outdoor events are Jihad targets of opportunity, as are crowded shopping malls. Organized athletic events in arenas and stadia are probably safer to some degree, but the Jihadis wouold love to target one for the kill ratio that they could achieve. Consider applying a sliding scale of risk to your life and it's chosen events. Yeah, that's a bummer, but we are at war, dude! You are probably safest at home, relatively safe out and about in your vehicle, safe enough doing shopping that is NOT done in large, crowded venues at peak predictable times. You are less safe in any public crowd, on mass transportation, at any outdoor event which has been heavily advertised as to attendance prospects. The training and/or dedication of your local policing authority is a factor in your relative safety also. Evaluate it.

Vote up. National elections are close at hand. Regardless of your political affiliation, you need to vote for your own safety. Safety is personal, and politicians and political parties which refuse to recognize your personal safety as their Job #1 should NOT get your vote. This is not about flavors of morality, this is about survival. See my note on National Command Authority, above.

Again, we are at war. The war has been brought to these shores by Islam, and it's not going to get "wished away", even though this seems to be the primary "combat strategy" of the current political Administration. YOU are responsible for your OWN safety, so make safety happen for you, NOW!

A final word. Religion. Your personal religious creed should give you the mental strength to survive the mental rigors of mortal combat. It is NOT required for that purpose, but if you hold to a creed, it will pay you to increase your attention to it in these anxious times. Your creed is your business under our Constitution. Your survival is a natural AND Constitutional Right under our system. You MUST consider anyone who attacks you for your creed or attacks your Right to survival as your enemy. Islam is attacking/denying both.

November 02, 2015

I have the Field Bag, an over-the-shoulder grab-all that will house a take-down rifle (as long as the components don't exceed 16" each), comfortably carry ammo, has water-bottle pockets, and the shoulder-strap is long enough to carry the bag as an on-the-back haversack if you are small of stature.

The strange pattern is not part of the bag. It is due to a low Western sun coming through my glazed front door and refracting onto the bag.

The interior pockets under the main flap will take a 4" Heavy revolver, such as a S&W "N" or Colt Anaconda or maybe one of the shorter-barrel Judges. It will, of course, carry a full-size auto pistol. The canvas is VERY heavy and nothing prints through.

October 31, 2015

Threat Horizon: Nexus of evil now arriving. The massive in-migration of muslim "refugees", guaranteed to have a significant percentage of Jihadis among them (my estimate is 10-20%) AND the simultaneous crippling of assertive, crime-preventative policing by marxist groups such as "Black Lives Matter" and the "New Black Panthers" is putting US cities in grave danger. This cannot be reversed for at least 15 months, if then.

Militia is the answer. Our forefathers foresaw this need, and wisely included the Second Amendment among our enumerated Freedoms. The Second Amendment, of course, builds upon the Natural Right of self-defense. Self defense itself must be organized in the face of organized threats such as the Muslim invasion, or Hijrah.

Such organized self-defense is known as Militia in this nation, and we have plenty of precedent for it. How do we prepare for the use of Militia?

The very thought of the subject of Militia strikes terror into the hearts of the Federal Government, and they have used and will use every bit of power at their disposal to prevent the development of Militia. What will they do?

Intimidation: Say you want to have a "pre-Muster", that is, get a militia unit going. That calls for communications of outreach, at which time which the Federal Government is immediately alerted to your intent, and they will assume that this militia will attempt a violent overthrow of the Government, and they will react accordingly. Their first reaction will be intimidation. They will send FBI or DHS agents to meet the organizers, to bluster and attempt to intimidate the organizers out of forming any prospective Militia unit.

Militia organizers must be prepared for such repressive tactics. First, organizers must know their Constitutional rights to organize any group, and must insure that good order and discipline is in effect to prevent any legitimate public fear of a Militia. No one can prevent ignorant fear, but fact-based fear must be prevented. No one can be permitted to speak for the Militia unit in terms of political objectives, only in terms of protection of lives and property from all threats. It would not be good to advertise a Militia unit as a "Christian" militia, or an "anti-Muslim" militia, even if those objectives are part of the fabric of organization due to the current threat horizon. The purpose of any Militia is always protection of life and property, period. Proper protectrion strategies are likely to place the Militia unit in conflict with criminal and/or religious-based attacks, and that must be realized and prepared for. Secondarily, the Militia unit should be prepared to assist the civil police, unless it is the case that the civil police have been co-opted by authorities with the objective of defeating the concept and fact of Militia. In no case should the Militia be governed by local police authorities, or it ceases to be Militia and becomes just another police auxiliary unit.

Logistical opposition: Let us postulate that the organization of a Militia unit went well, and the unit has progressed via training to field-capable status. It is still not properly prepared if it is not able to be self-sufficient. You may bet your last dollar on the fact that the Federal government will attempt to impose materiel restrictions on the populace to hamper Militia operations. These restrictions will be on fuel supply, ammunition and weapons availability, and by means of curfews which will always be enforced against Militia, never against favored classes (the opposition). Curfews can be constructed so that even power cut-offs to militia-controlled areas of a city are used against Militia units. Food will be in short supply anyway, as the Federal government will use such a shortage to attempt to control the population.

The success or failure of a Militia unit to achieve it's goal of protection of life and property over the long term will be dependent on the support of the population that is being protected.

In future articles, we will discuss how the average family can help it's local Militia operate, by volunteering not only members of that Militia unit, but real goods to keep the Militia going.

April 14, 2015

The usual drill for home-brew ammo makers is to load ammo which either duplicates or exceeds factory ammo. If you shoot a lot, this practice can pay for itself very quickly. I don't shoot as much as I should, but I like to explore in the depths of the ammo-making hobby. Recently, I got the idea to explore the notion of making low-power ammo, mostly because it is not available on the market, you HAVE to make it if you want to shoot it.

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Everything old is new again, sometime.

What if we reloaders turned this issue upside-down? What if we loaded LESS-powerful ammo than is usually sold from factory suppliers? Is there any advantage to that?

Not only is the answer yes, it is HELL YESS!

In 30-caliber rifles (30 US Carbine, 30-06, 308 Winchester, 300 Savage, 300 Blackout for you AR folks, not to mention the "fat-30's", starting with the old 32-20 Winchester, the 32 Winchester Special, the AK round 7.62x39 and even the beefier 7.62x54R and 7.92s (aka 8X56, 8x57), we have, usually, an inherently good rifle with good sights that we can't shoot except in the wide-open spaces, and even then we have to realize that these bullets can carry 8 miles!

So, when we go afield and we're NOT hunting big game, the 30-cal blunderbusses get left behind or stay locked up in the shooting brake (Brit humor, that!). What if we had ammo with us for that blunderbuss of an old battle-rifle that pretty much ran out of effectiveness after 50 to 100 yards? Then, if we kick up a bunny or a varmint requires dispatch, we load the "down" round and pop the target. Pop goes the low-power round, and roll over goes the bunny, while remaining in one piece and if there is an exit wound, you can probably even find the bullet nearby!

I did a fair amount of research for this post, and my computerized wanderings took me to CastBoolit.com where there is considerable discussion of this topic. Of course, that site exists for those who cast their own bullets, or "boolits" as they call them, but powder loading is also discussed, as is the choice of the best 30-cal rifles to "load down".

I have basic bullet-casting gear, but haven't played with this sub-sport in the reloading game yet, so I buy my cast boolits ready made. Last night, I ginned up some low-power rounds for a test:

These Oregon Trail LaserCast TruShot 170s are huge boolits, but it's what I had. Better would have been something in the 100-125 grain size. The beauty of these boolits is that they are hard (sintered with silver!) alloy, and gas-checked, so despite that my 25-grains of W748 will only move them at about 1500 fps, I could load them up to as high as 2300 fps, pretty much as fast as 180 JSP factory. If I go to just a few grains of Bullseye, with Dacron over-powder wadding, I could load them down further into the 800-900 fps range.

This week, I and the Savage 99f will go to the range and I will do mixed-load comparisons with these and some factory, both factory 150s and 180s.

March 25, 2015

Overt racism is now a tool of the Left, and that's too bad, because it's being used the most by the hard Left, by the Marxist revolutionaries here.

Racism happens when any power of any sort is allowed to exist for the purpose of advancing an ethnic cause beyond a bright line of ethnic equality. Equality is a simple construct, but when it changes into racial advocacy (one race is superior in any way, or one race is suppressed in any way), then equality morphs into racism.

There is race war in this Nation. Everyone is involved. No one may choose not to participate. That's the choice of the current bringers of race war, the Marxist blacks and their allies. The allies include, but may not be limited to: radical hispanics ("la raza"), the hippie street punks ("occupoopers"), the anarchists, politically-radical techies ("anonymous"), violent environmentalists (ELF, ALF, PETA) and the Congressional Black Caucus. The black Marxists have Enablers also. Chief among them is the Democratic Party, which as currently led, accepts black racism and may even be promoting it.

The simple objective for all these groups and for their conflict is not any sort of racial equality, it is racial SUPERIORITY. Yes, whites and blacks already ARE equal before and under the law, but that is not good enough for the black Marxists. They believe that the white race must be made to pay "reparations", not to force equality, but to bring the blacks superior political power. These reparations take many forms, including gerrymandered Congressional voting districts, indulgences for blacks committing/threatening violence to attain racist goals, and the enforced "white guilt" we see now as official educational guidance policy ("check yourself for White Privilege"). The reparations have no ending date, ever, and that is what makes them racist.

Finally, we now have a resurgent "Black Panther" organization. This group arose in the 1960s, along with Fidel Castro's communist revolution succeeding in Cuba, and Che Guevara's exporting of violent Marxism around the world. The Marxism outlived Guevara, of course. The Black Panthers became resurgent after 30 years of quiescence when their racism was seen and recorded in Philly in the '08 election, but the new Obama regime gave them an indulgence.

When the race war comes to YOU, to your neighborhood, to your children's schools, how will YOU respond? Think about it now, because you will have to react very quickly when when the "social justice warriors" are on your doorstep.